Good News Today 2 – Eviction and repossession remain far below 2014 levels

By Professor John Robertson

From Scot Gov today:

While overall civil justice statistics are climbing steadily since the pandemic year, the increase curve is flattening (a smaller increase in the last year than in the year before and just after the pandemic low point), suggesting we may not return to the high point of 2017/2018.

Also and very encouraging, family-related incidents which can traumatise and harm children longer -term, and repossession of household goods which can do similar damage, remain at a far lower levels than before.

Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/civil-justice-statistics-scotland-2022-23/

I can find no media coverage.

7 thoughts on “Good News Today 2 – Eviction and repossession remain far below 2014 levels”

  1. Did you notice RS had a wee bit about this John but not the in depth report you gave us.

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  2. Sorry for going off topic.

    On the Scottish Government website under ‘News’ there is a report about a recently completed deep water terminal in Stornoway.

    Interestingly, as well as being useful for large cruise ships and servicing the renewable energy sector it can also be used for the export of hydrogen.

    https://www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk/en/news/green-hydrogen-future-for-western-isles-with-major-clean-energy-investment.html

    I am curious to find out, should Scotland produce, store, and export hydrogen, if it also helps the Scottish Government to meet its ‘greenhouse gas reduction’ interim target of 75% by 2030? 🤔

    ps. The new terminal could also be used to service the oil and gas industry. There are discoveries North West of the Isle of Harris, along the Atlantic Margin.

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    1. There is much disinformation in circulation over hydrogen – It was conceived as a means of storing excess energy where there was no interlink to directly export (the norm in Scotland) but the electrolysis relies on a highly purified form of water. In energy terms, hydrogen it is a very small fraction of the original power, so it’s far from ideal.

      I think they have a small electrolysis unit on Orkney as a pilot plant which powers some council vehicles, but that’s about it. Cheaper and more powerful batteries will likely supplant hydrogen as a storage medium without it’s many complications.

      The oil/gas sector are also promoting hydrogen off the back of this to extend their own hydrocarbon product use, but there are downsides obviously.

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      1. Thank you for your reply Bob.

        The Scottish Government publication ‘Hydrogen Action Plan’ published on 14 December 2022, in section of the Ministerial Foreward says –

        https://www.gov.scot/publications/hydrogen-action-plan/

        “Our priority is to get as much renewable hydrogen into the energy system as quickly as possible, while also supporting the establishment of low-carbon hydrogen production at scale in the 2020s, linked to carbon capture and storage (CCS). Economic impact estimates based on scenarios developed for the Scottish Government indicate the development of a hydrogen economy in Scotland could mean between 70,000 to over 300,000 jobs could be protected or created with potential Gross Value Added (GVA) impacts of between £5 billion and £25 billion a year by 2045 depending on the scale of production and the extent of exports.”

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        1. I was aware of the strategy, but were it not for London deviousness in preventing european interconnects to Scotland, upgraded links to the islands, and grid upgrades, it would likely never have seen the light of day. As for CCS, of which I have a very dim view, look how the front runner in that one was ignored by the Tories –  Yes, it would provide new jobs, but that’s the only upside if you look beyond the highly optimistic economics.

          eg Orkney – They’ve been battling since forever to get the mainland interconnect upgraded, first to get power TO Orkney, now to get power OFF as they’re saturated with power.  IIRC the upgrade has been slated for some time in the next 5 years, and meantime they’re ordered to shut down segments of energy production.

          It’s a ridiculous situation, but such is the mendacity of London that they’d rather import energy from France etc than ‘oop north’ – They gazumped the Peterhead Norway scheme to divert it to Blyth and put the link in within a year IIRC, then whacked in HVDC cables north to the ‘colonies’, so it’s pretty obvious what they’re doing….

          I guarantee on the first day of an independent Scottish Parliament, a queue of foreign ministers and contractors will have formed at the door to build interlinks to mainland europe – Any hydrogen economy built up before will then collapse…

          Hope that makes sense

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  3. Hello Bob, thanks again for your reply. I have to log on every time to make a post or like a post. When I log on I am also sent a text message with a pin number I need to enter during the log in process.

    Very interesting about Orkney’s experience. I wanted to mention the interconnected and provide a link, but posts with two links or more go to modetation

    Work on an interconnector has begun. Maybe this is a sign of things to come for Scotland’s island communities saturated with renewable energy?

    This website publishes regular updates.

    https://www.ssen-transmission.co.uk/projects/project-map/western-isles/

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